Improvement in croquet-boards



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICEo JACOB FEDERHEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT lN CROQU'ET-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,3776. dated November6, 1866.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JACOB FEDEEHEN, ofBoston, Suffolk county, State of Massachusetts, have invented anew anduseful Improvement in Croquet-Boards; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and eX- act description thereof', which willenable others skilled in the art to make and use the saine, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of thislspecification.

The present invention relates to the cushions of croquet-lmards, orboards upon which the gaine ot' croquet is played; and it consists informing s uch cushions of a string or strings `of catgut, so called,such as is usi-d for harps,

violins, or other similar musical instruments, which cat-gut stringpasses around suitable stanchions or posts at each cornerof the table orboard. and is drawn with sufficient tightness, that, as the balls usedin playing the game strike against it they will rebound therefrom.

In accompanying plate my improvement is illustrated, the ligure being aperspective view ot' a croquet-board with it applied thereto.

A in the. drawings represents a croquetboard, which in every particular,except so far as the present invention extends, is to be made in asubstantially similar manner to the ordi-v nary croquet-boards, butwhich iii the-present instance is provided with a cushionentirely aroundthe sameformed of a cat-gut string, B, that at each, corner C of theboard passes through the eye D of suitable Xed stanchions or posts Ethereat, and is then drawn sufciently tight to produce or cause therebound,

of the balls used in the playing of croquet therefrom, as theyareimpelled or strike against the same, this cat-gut string when struckby theballs producinga sound or tone that greatly tends to impart ht'e,vivacity, and enjoyment to the game.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Let-` Witnesses J AMEs DUNLAP,Jr., H. B. STILsoN.

